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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






2. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






3. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






4. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






5. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






6. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






8. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






9. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






10. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






11. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






13. The main character of a literary work.






14. A short saying with a moral.






15. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






16. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






17. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






18. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






19. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






20. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






21. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






22. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






23. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






24. What a story or play is about.






25. A character struggles against some outside force.






26. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






27. A three-line stanza.






28. The person who 'tells' the story.






29. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






32. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






33. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






34. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






35. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






36. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






37. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






38. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






39. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






40. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






43. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






44. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






45. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






46. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






47. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






48. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






49. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






50. The dictionary meaning of a word.